Get out of the car and open your eyes. Stow your phone and camera for an hour and just look around. Absorb the sounds — there are a few, the colors — too many hues to count — and the clear air. Measure your own height against the trees, and your endurance against the rocks along the first mile down the Bright Angel trail [which is about as far as many get before reversing] Then take a look at what you can see on your phone and realize there is no substitute for being there.
Wilde Bill over 2 years ago
I remember going up to the railing, looking down and thinking, “It doesn’t look all that deep.”
Ratkin Premium Member over 2 years ago
Especially the water.
RetFor over 2 years ago
My grandmother kept her knitting in a metal tin. It was her can-yarn.
RetFor over 2 years ago
When viewing it, it’s so impressive that even if you’re really tired you cant-yawn.
RetFor over 2 years ago
It’s too far, I can’t see it clearly. What’s that can yonder?
Ricky Bennett over 2 years ago
It’s too deep for your shallow minds…
P51Strega over 2 years ago
Did they see the hole thing?
Doug K over 2 years ago
The part that’s “missing” is (what makes the canyon) the canyon.
And the more that’s “missing” the bigger greater grander it is.
scottbruce over 2 years ago
Ah, he’s a “the canyon is half empty” kinda guy.
[Traveler] Premium Member over 2 years ago
I looked over it and thought, it looks just like all the photos you’ve ever seen of it.
sandpiper over 2 years ago
Get out of the car and open your eyes. Stow your phone and camera for an hour and just look around. Absorb the sounds — there are a few, the colors — too many hues to count — and the clear air. Measure your own height against the trees, and your endurance against the rocks along the first mile down the Bright Angel trail [which is about as far as many get before reversing] Then take a look at what you can see on your phone and realize there is no substitute for being there.
Wirepuncher over 2 years ago
It’s quite impressive from a helicopter viewpoint.
uniquename over 2 years ago
One of my favorite cartoons showed a family at the Grand Canyon reading a sign that said, “It started as a pothole on a suburban street.”
walstib Premium Member over 2 years ago
National Lampoon Vacation.
Mr. Impatient over 2 years ago
It was just a creek when the Flintstones visited it.
InTraining Premium Member over 2 years ago
isn’t that Thelma and Louise…?
Kirk Barnes Premium Member over 2 years ago
That’s ‘cause Daffy filled it in in the 40’s, and had to dig it back out.
Richard S Russell Premium Member over 2 years ago
Here’s where we throw in the obligatory reference to Valles Marineris on Mars, depicted here beneath an outline of the lower 48:
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/resources/683/valles-marineris-the-grand-canyon-of-mars/
braindead Premium Member over 2 years ago
You just start on flat ground and wash away everything that doesn’t look like Grand Canyon.
raybarb44 over 2 years ago
That’s a real long story my friend……
PaulGoes over 2 years ago
The police are looking into it
The Orange Mailman over 2 years ago
And what’s so intriguing about outer space?
kenneth.sanger over 2 years ago
The Grand Canyon is the pits.
tcviii Premium Member about 2 years ago
At the time it was named, it was a canyon on the Grand River. They later renamed the river, but the name of the canyon stuck.